National Doughnut Day (Also the first Friday in June)
National Eat Healthy Day
National Chinese Take-Out Day
Meme Du Jour
THIS DAY IN HISTORY
1872 – Susan B. Anthony is arrested for trying to vote
1889 – Voters in Wyoming approved a state constitution that gave women the right to vote
1912 – Woodrow Wilson wins the presidency in a landslide (435 Electoral votes)
1935 – Parker Brothers launches ‘Monopoly’ (Based on the Landlord’s Game)
1940 – FDR wins a third term
1968 – Richard Nixon is elected the 37th President of the United States
1994 – Reagan goes public with his Alzheimer’s
2009 – Deadly shooting at Fort Hood – Major Nadal Hasan killed 13 people
2024 – Voters gave Donald Trump a resounding second term victory
News and The Politics out of D.C.
CLIPS
– MAMDANI HAS SOME WORDS FOR PRESIDENT TRUMP – ‘TURN THE VOLUME UP!’
– MAMDANI OPENED WITH A QUOTE FROM SOCIALIST EUGENE DEBS
– THE NYC MAYOR ELECT SURE SOUNDS EMBOLDENED
– ZOHRAN HAD SOME BITING WORDS FOR ANDREW CUOMO
– CNN’s VAN JONES WAS NOT EXACTLY FULL OF PRAISE FOR THE SPEECH
– SCOTT JENNINGS FOLLOWED VAN JONES WITH SOME GREAT STUFF
– JENNINGS ALSO GETS PUSHBACK FOR CALLING MAMDANI THE NEW DEM LEADER
– FIRST TIME VOTERS, LIVING IN NYC FOR LESS THAN 10 YEARS VOTED MAMDANI
– MAMDANI FULL (22 MIN) SPEECH
– AOC TAKES A VICTORY LAP AFTER MAMDANI’S WIN
– SCHUMER ASKED IF HE VOTED FOR MAMDANI — ‘LOOK, I VOTED’
– APPARENTLY, JAY JONES’ NASTY TEXT MESSAGES WERE NOT ‘DISQUALIFYING’ TO VA VOTERS
– JAKE TAPPER ON SPANBERGER WIN – ‘FINALLY, SOME GENDER EQUITY’
– NBC’s KORNAKI WAS STUNNED BY THE AGE GAP IN VOTERS
– DID SPANBERGER BENEFIT FROM VA’s HUGE CONNECTION TO FED WORKERS AND CONTRACTS?
– MD GOV ANNOUNCES HE’S GONNA GERRYMANDER HIS STATE TOO
– CA REDISTRICTING INITIATIVE PASSED – BUT THE PEOPLE WANT NON-BIASED DISTRICTS
– ‘THE VIEW’ TRIED TO RECRUIT MTG
– JOY BEHAR IS REALLY HOPING TRUMP IS JAILED SOON
More News From DC
– FORMER BUSH VEEP, DICK CHENEY PASSED AWAY YESTERDAY
– U OF CHICAGO PROFESSOR TRASHES CHENEY AFTER HEARING OF HIS DEATH
– ELECTION UPDATES – NO HIDING IT, DEMS HAD A BIG NIGHT
– MAMDANI WINS (AS EXPECTED) AND DELIVERS FIERY SPEECH ATTACKING TRUMP
– BERNIE SANDERS CALLS THE WIN ‘GREAT POLITICAL UPSET’ (WAIT, ZOHRAN WAS EXPECTED TO WIN)
– ELIZABETH WARREN WANTS TRUMP TO ACT LIKE A DICTATOR
– DAVID HOGG HAS NO REAL ARGUMENT — SO, HE ATTACKS SCOTT JENNINGS’ ROLEX
General News
– UPS PLANE CRASH IN KENTUCKY KILLED AT LEAST SEVEN PEOPLE
– THE CRASH WAS CAPTURED ON VIDEO(Needs a lot of beeps for air)
– IBM IS WARNING – BIG JOB CUTS COMING IN THIS 4TH QUARTER
– ONE COUNTRY HAS BANNED SMOKING / TOBACCO FOR AN ENTIRE GENERATION
– TEACHER IN HOT WATER FOR WEARING OUTFITS MORE APPROPRIATE FOR THE CLUB THAN CLASS
– ARE YOU USING MELATONIN TO GET BETTER SLEEP? YOU MIGHT NEED TO READ THIS
– JEEP IS RECALLING 320,000 PLUG-IN HYBRIDS (FIRE RISK – ‘PARK AWAY FROM BUILDINGS‘)
Other News Catching My Eye
– THANK GOD THE AP HAS SHARED DETAILS ON WHICH PETS HAVE THE BIGGEST CARBON FOOTPRINT
– STEPHEN COLBERT WANTS YOU TO KNOW THAT HE’S NOT A CRAZY LEFTIST (SURE, SURE)
– NO, IT’S NEVER OK TO TAKE A SMILING PHOTO WITH SOMEONE IN A HITLER COSTUME
– WHAT DO YOU DO WITH YOUR PJs AFTER YOU WEAR THEM?
– WAIT, TOM BRADY HAD HIS DOG CLONED? (COULD HE BE A CLONE TOO?)
